rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on all just play an important role protecting it with. ringback another blow to donald trump's effort to reverse the election loss. a judge dismisses his lawsuit challenging. pennsylvania postal votes calling it speculation on this is observer live from doha. also coming up new restrictions in portugal as coded. 19 surges to new levels in europe and the u.s. as head of the holiday season. protesters

towards the congress building in guatemala, as anger grows over budget cuts for health services and education. the u.s. secretary of state to hold separate talks with the afghan government and the taliban just hours after 8 people were killed in a nice letter back. in kabul donald trump has suffered another cold loss in his attempt to overturn the results of the u.s. presidential election. a district judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the trunk campaign which saw attack skloot millions of mail in ballots in the state. the judge issued a scathing ruling saying it failed to provide evidence of voter fraud. the charm campaign has now lost or withdrawn. dozens of similar lawsuits. mike hanna, is live for us now in washington. d.c.

yet another blow for the campaign. mike, but this might be part of the strategy, is trump trying to fail upwards of maybe trying to get this to the supreme court. do you think well, it would appear to be the strategy. let's put it very clearly here, is that in more than 30 cases that the trunk campaign or republicans have brought after the elections, they have not succeeded in a single one, but this particular decision was notable for a number of reasons. 1st of all, it's a federal charges, a very senior judge. secondly, the language in which he rejected this case was extremely surprising, extremely harsh and extremely critical of the attempt to reverse the election result. what the judge william brand said was that the trump campaign provide only strained at legal arguments without to merit and speculative arguments,

and supported by evidence. he went on and likened to the campaign appeal to frankenstein's monster, which you said had been put together haphazardly. now also significantly, this case was brought in person by the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who argued before this judge earlier in the week. and now the campaign is saying that it's going to take it to the 3rd district, which would be the senior court. and then it will go to the supreme court. it says, however, the couple of problems with the use of wishes, 1st of all, the very tenor of the structures. decision is unlikely to give them any grounds for appeal whatsoever. it's likely to be rejected by the district, certainly may not even get that far given the lack of merits, according to the judge in this particular case. so here we've got a situation essentially where it seems like trance neagle team. this is his 3rd legal team. one must remember, since the elections is flailing around,

trying to find some way, trying to present a strategy that it wants to end up in the supreme court. but just on the basis of the facts, that's exceedingly unlikely. if not impossible to happen, but mike, there must be some senior voices within the republican party who are saying, look enough is enough. we've lost all of these court cases. it was a good try. but now he needs to concede. there have been some isolated voices. a couple have spoken out strongly in favor of these ongoing legal arguments. and number have also said, well, it's fair enough that you can go through the legal processes back at some stage. the election results got to be accepted just to see evening, a very senior republican in the house. liz cheney, she's the 3rd highest ranking member in the house, has broken her silence and said, now it's time for all of this to end. the results have got to be accepted and we've got to move on. now in reality, what is happening is one mandate. for example,

michigan world certify the vote. pennsylvania will certify the vote. after that, this storm may be wrong for legal action, but basically it's all over at that particular point. michaela there live for us in washington d.c. . the corona virus pandemic is surging to new levels across the u.s. and europe with officials grappling with how to contain the spread ahead of the holiday season. the u.s. has now surpassed 12000000 cases, the highest of any country. and that's as millions of people are expected to ignore official warnings and travel for thanksgiving on thursday in greece, virus related deaths of it's a daily record of $108.00 hospitals. they are under pressure as emergency beds, fill up officials say the current lockdown there is likely to be extended. and portugal's prime minister is burning domestic travel and closing schools around 2 upcoming national holidays. infections there have risen sharply since september.

iran too is struggling to contain a 3rd wave of infections and introducing a 2nd lockdown. most business is shut and there's a clampdown on travel between major cities to try and slow the spread of reports from to her own. nearly 500 people have been dying from covert 900 every day in iran, as it battles a 3rd wave of coronavirus and daily infections number more than 13000. that's the highest the country has had since the start of the outbreak. current prevention measures don't seem to be working. now the government has imposed a 2 week lockdown that had more the main goal is to control of the wireless and reduce it to a minimum. and to reduce the number of gathering from people commuting. and for some places we had no other choice than in the past, we asked people to abide by protocols for their own health and of a newscaster and medical staffs. people to abide by protocol. so this pressure can

be removed as soon as possible. only essential businesses are allowed to remain open and some people say they need help when it's closed, we have no other source of income, but there is no other choice. we should do something to curb the chain of the virus . it's tough, but there's no other choice. we need to be patient to have an infection rate reduced. i don't think 2 weeks is enough to control the situation. i agree with the idea of closing down 100 percent, yet many other problems will be created that i don't agree with. like financial problems for people. shopkeepers still have to pay rent and their employees will receive no salary. private vehicles are banned from the roads from 9 pm until 4 am . travelling outside cities is also prohibited. the government says people found to be breaking the rules will be fined, but it's facing criticism over its handling of the pandemic. 2 officials in the

health ministry have resigned and issued open letters. reza says the government has mismanaged the crisis and disputes statements made by the health minister about the country's progress in finding a vaccine. the closure of businesses is making life worse for many in what was already a tough economic situation because of u.s. sanctions. the grand bazaar here in iran would usually be packed with shoppers, but it's closed. many agree the lock down is needed, but livelihoods are at stake. $10000000.00 families are to receive around $4.00 a month for the next 4 months on a $40.00 loan. but many say that's not enough. the challenge the government faces is whether it can persuade people to keep abiding by restrictions when they need to work to feed their families. as to her own. the global pandemic is also dominating the virtual g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies are expected to pledge support to poor

countries. the aim is to help pay for the distribution of vaccines and medicines and tests. while they discuss the tackling the crisis, the us president was out playing golf. donald trump made a brief appearance at the summit, but skipped the pandemic meeting. the virus has killed over 250000, people in the u.s. more than any other country. now police have clashed with anti government protesters in guatemala, after 100 stormed the congress building and set it on fire to clear the demonstration which was led by university students after it turned violent. there is widespread anger at the new budget which protesters say disenfranchises whole and indigenous people. yes, he is monitoring the situation from bogota in colombia. he explains why protests are likely to continue. a number of protesters were able to storm into what the my last congress burn part of the building, but flames seen shooting out of

a window. security forces move then fired tear gas on the protesters that's carried around downtown guatemala city and continue to confront the police. all this seen as part of the growing them astray. sions against president 100 day and lawmakers and what sparked them is the fact that they have passed a budget deal on ways wednesday night that cuts many benefits for regular guatemalans, while increasing benefits for lawmakers, which has seriously angered a lot of people and also say that a priori, it's a serious of a project that will profit according to the protestors. a private company is close to the government. president john, my pay hasn't commented on any of this yet, but he is a vice president has offered his resignation,

calling on the president to do the same. he said ford the good of the country. and now this goes beyond this particular bill. it's clear that there is widespread rage and the country also the fact that the congress has pushed this be a while. the country is still dealing with back to back hurricanes that have created the widespread devastation in guatemala. it's clear that the protests will continue in coming days and will continue to put more pressure on president john metairie and his administration. ed go or tease is the director of the legal area at the freedom and development foundation. he joins us from guatemala city by skype and get the spot for these protests was that this budget that the protesters say disenfranchised for an indigenous people. but had these protests been a long time coming? i mean, budget was destroyed or broke. the camel's back thing is that people were upset

that the government mostly because 2 independent make their government back in march, raise money that he was supposed to be for economic 8, but the aid never made it to the people who need it the most. so that's the main concern of people and now the congress approves these budget deal in a very unusual way. they, they did it during night, you know, emergency session. and that was to make people want to mother very, very upset. now the president must be looking at these pictures of congress. he's a fairly tough character. he's not in any mood to back down, especially after protesters stormed congress. yes, i mean he made 2 appearances before to protest one in wesleyan one day before. and he was defending all the time that budget deal. he says didn't just budget, these are lower than the current budget, which is true. we have to take into account that these current budget includes did

money, raise $40.00 emergencies. so he's not a fair comparison. and the thing is that people perceive that these budget, these tailored for the lawmakers, you know, is not taking the reported people's wealth for and that's, that's what is striking people live for us in guatemala city. thank you very much. thank you for having me. still ahead on al jazeera, desperate for food aid, we report from sudan where thousands of refugees who fled fighting in ethiopia, a struggling to survive and live on the rising sea levels, a new toll in the fight against global warming is launched into space. or

rather when the water is warmest on the and it is in the city families see if you like and the cold air freezing it comes over top of it is doing that community siberia you generate big showers, thunderstorms and other rain or snow. this will be mostly rain, but for the high ground of hokkaido. and north korea will see a bit of snow out of this. mostly it's going to be rain for honshu and on the north coast as well. the air behind it is wintry, cold, high temperatures by day in harbors months. 7 in beijing is plus 4 in the cold is sinking, sags into the good part of mainland china. it too will generate a certain amount of snow in the west where the ground is high and come across just north of 101. maybe the northern limit of the really cold air or the southern him touch. 2nd south of that, hong kong's enjoying what really has been late summer 24 degrees or so. but for the same reason, as you get showers generation over warm water in the cold air comes across it. we're generating the beginning, the sas, china sea,

and the philippine sea. heaviest rain here in the forth on storms. proper rainy season, rain further south through malaysia and indonesia and a hint recirculation in the bay of bengal. that'll be no more than tropical depression, but it will bring some pretty heavy rain to the north as for lanka, and eventually tamilnadu the start of next week. as a 2nd wave of covert, 19 brings a surge in infections. a few months ago, there were dozens of cases a day now if we chose 2000 and countries and force new measures to curb contagion, this is the 1st floor of the government, a in of mass testing. the entire population. scientists are on the brink of releasing new vaccines to reduce the spread of the virus. will it be enough to bring the global health crisis to an end, the coronavirus, and then the special coverage on a jersey you're

watching out is there are a mind of our top stories this hour. a district court judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the donald trump campaign, which sought to exclude millions of mail in ballots in the state. the judge issued a scathing ruling saying it failed to provide evidence of votes for old. u.s. health officials are urging people not to travel for the thanksgiving holidays that as the country supports is 12000000 active cases. european countries are also moving to ca, soaring infections with portugal banning domestic travel ahead of the holiday season. and police have clashed with antigovernment protesters in guatemala,

after hundreds still in the congress building and setting fire officers fired tear gas to clear the demonstration which was led by university students after it turned violent. if europeans rejected an african union offer to mediate in the conflict in the northern region, the government launched an offensive against the people's liberation front. 2 weeks ago. aid agencies say about 2000 refugees are arriving in neighboring sudan every day. and morgan reports state many bad, the scars of the horrors they have just escaped since he arrived in this refugee camp in sudan's got out of state 5 days ago, haile will be gabrielle has been hoping to have his own properly treated. he says shop will hit his hand while he was fleeing from soldiers in ethiopia as northern region, but he's now lost 2 fingers. i was at the farm where i work and when i started seeing people running, i didn't know what was going on. and when i went to see them,

hyla says he was also hit by sharknado in his stomach, and fragments are still lodged in his hand. it's now become infected, and he's worried. he may lose it. fighting in the region began more than 2 weeks ago when the regional to great people's liberation front, launched an attack on a military base. the government responded by launching an offensive that's forced more than 35000 people to flee to neighboring sudan. this camp was uninhabited, but sudan's government has reopened it to cope with the sudden influx. and her 2 children arrived here after running away from their home and walking for 10 days to cross the border. at night, armed men came to my house and threatened us and told us we should leave immediately or we will be killed. so i took my turn children and what i could carry more than 15000 refugees live in this camp. many tell stories of brutal killings and long journeys to escape. if he appears government has imposed

a communications blackout and blocked access to the region. since the start of the fighting rights groups say civilians have been targeted. integrate. the united nations says the killings could amount to work rhymes while not all of those displaced have witnessed the attacks of this recount. they say the stories they heard from family members and relatives were enough to make them come here, rather than staying back home. and those who say they witnessed with their own eyes, people being slaughtered and killed, say they doubt their memory will ever fade from their minds. the telephone, his wife and 2 children were among the 1st to arrive in the camp, fleeing from a khadra. he says the journey took them nearly 5 days and they came with little of what they own to live with. we lived in the suburbs and had only heard of the fighting back then. but then people came armed with machetes and nerves, and it was chaos from the telephone says he doesn't know which side the people who came to his hometown belong to. because they were dressed as civilians and 2 still green, who want to have the comfort of

a secure home. he now has to explain that their lives have changed and they face an uncertain future. he will morgan of his era and for sugar. the bar of state also says behind rocket attacks in the afghan capital that killed at least 8 people and injured dozens more. the attack came just hours before u.s. . secretary of state holds holes in the afghan government and taliban negotiators and catch up. earlier this week, the pentagon said it would soon pull out about 2000 troops out of afghanistan for the a controversial rate reports of kabul. schoolgirls running for their lives after a rocket lands near their school, part of a coordinated attack on the capital. kabul more than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. it was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the afghan capital for the next 10 minutes,

it felt like kabul was under attack. witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. so what they could, it was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. so we took them to hospital. i would have thought the way it was around 9 am. rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. i still has claimed responsibility for the attack. it came just hours before the u.s. secretary of state mike arrived in qatar is capital doha. he's talking to both afghan government and taliban negotiators involved in peace talks, there shines richie's and security that are just pressed yet again. so that the sort of weaponry get into the city. and secondly, it's part of the trend where greater violence in the suits is 90 assassinations.

not in its own even at a time when taleban said that they won't launch attacks on incentives i, i saw has been behind recent attacks on the capital. gunmen stormed a catholic university, 3 weeks ago. at least 22 people were killed. the government says in saturday's attack, fighters fired the rockets from the back of 2 trucks. it's investigating how the vehicles managed to enter the city undetected. posing more questions about the government's ability to keep the capital city secure. contrary, i'll just say of stuff in dhaka has more on like is told to the afghan government and taliban negotiators in my compare wrapped up saturday with meeting the taliban

delegation involved in intra afghan talks, see it met an hour earlier with the afghan government delegation. these are talks that were integrated back in september, the u.s. secretary of state where he was here for that as well. but it's been a difficult process moving toward the still stuck on the technicalities of what kind of islamic law will govern the govern. the framework of these tools, i think the message certainly from my pompei will be that they are keen to get the 2 sides to sit down to really get to the difficult issues when it comes to a long lasting cease fire and a power sharing agreement between the 2 sides, of course, you also met the path or is it merely had a lunch with him and also met with the deputy prime minister and to be discussed issues like iran. this is ministration that's been very much an anti iran in a country as a country that has very good relations with iran. it's also one of the issues when it comes to the gulf blockade, the blockading countries demanding that qatar cuts ties with iran, something they have so far, refused to do. this is also an administration that has said it wanted to perhaps

get some movement on the lifting of the blockade that certainly at the moment hasn't happened, not to the full extent anyway. and of course, also in a way pump a oh, of course, and u.s. president donald trump not having conceded defeat, but patters. amir has already called the president joe biden, to congratulate him on his way as a boy zones where the tree says its diffuse more than 150 mines in the territory. it's regained after weeks of fighting with armenia. is one of 3 areas surrounding the disputed region being handed over by armenia, and a russian brokered deal reports another town back in the hands of azerbaijan. it may be uninhabited, but it's still dangerous. the military says more than 150 land mines were defused along a few kilometers of this road. these units are taking control of. once

a busy city in one of the most populated areas around the corner, credible for them of them is an important victory achieved without violence and displaced. people writing peace will be able to return according to our plan, roads and buildings will be rebuilt. the government will provide full support for the return of i.d.p.'s as one of the 3 regions being handed over by armenia under a russian brokered deal. about 2000 russian peacekeepers are tasked with ensuring no armenian troops are left in their territory. most of them has been under the, control of armenia since the 1990 s., according to the un, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee, or azerbaijan, the territory occupied by armenian forces during the war. and with as many as

200000 a series wanting to return politicians in azerbaijan want to also assure armenian civilians they can stay at the end of the day. they are citizens in joliet represents an estimated 1000000, a series displaced from the car, about region, in spite of being subjected to ethnic cleansing, in spite of being expelled from other homes and leaving as i.d.p.'s for 30 years. we have not any feelings of animosity. we have, nor any feelings of hatred against armenians. that's why i have always been saying to armenians in the going across the region of azerbaijan, that please remember, do all the walls about the landmark mosque are covered in graffiti and soldiers. here see animals have recently been kept in the centuries old place of worship. as cities and towns come back to as a control, the destruction is becoming apparent. people are eager to return, but they realize that it will take time. and those who do from the area say that

the physical scars might be removed, but they will always carry the burden of this war. with al jazeera protesters in thailand have been demonstrating again to keep up the pressure on the government there demanding changes to the education system, which they say is archaic. student, their drugs have been held since july, calling for a new constitution reforms of the monarchy and their removal of prime minister. prayer chain archer. how fast the sea levels are rising, scientists hope a new earth observation satellites will help them find out the central sex satellite left in air force base in california on saturday. onboard a space. x. falcon 9 rocket. it's part of a joint project between nasa and the european space agency. robert oulds has more it's developers say the ocean measuring satellite sentinel 6 will provide irrefutable evidence of how the seas are rising due to human caused global warming

. the satellite, which resembles a large gadget festooned orbiting doghouse, can quantify ocean rise to within a centimeter. the main concept is that has a radar altimeter on board, and it, it fires a pulse of the ocean surface and you measure how it takes that also to go out and come back. and from that you can him for the height of the satellite above the ocean surface. and so when you take the height of the satellite and you subtract off that radar measurement of the height of the satellite above the ocean surface, then you have a measurement of the height of the ocean. about one 3rd of ocean rises due to thermal expansion. water that absorbs heat, expands like mercury in an old fashioned thermometer. the rest is due to the melting of glaciers and ice caps in greenland, the antarctic and elsewhere. so these 2 elements to get america. be the product of

sentiment 6, very relevant for, for the society, for the intergovernmental panel on climate change has projected that oceans could rise more than 60 centimeters by 2100 endangering millions. if not billions of people who live near the sea or in storm prone areas. scientists working on the sentinel 6 program say it will provide an ambiguous data to grab the public and policymakers attention. it was going up, we can show people the data. and i like to think that, that most people out there can still be informed by looking out, you know, real data. so it's not some climate model that's predicted what's going to happen. it's actually measurements of what's really change, what's changing, and why climate is changing be kind of is we're putting c o 2 and other greenhouse

gases into the atmosphere. and we need to start moving on to renewable energy sources and stop burning fossil fuels. central six's mission will last 5 years, a messenger in outer space bearing a message to humanity that it must change its ways. rob reynolds al-jazeera, the sellers there and these are the top stories. a district judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the donald trump campaign, which sort of exclude millions of mail in ballots. in the states. the judge issued a scathing ruling saying it felt to provide evidence of voter fraud. mike hanna, has more from washington in more than 30 cases that the trump campaign or republicans have brought after the elections. they have not succeeded in

a single one, but this particular decision was notable for a number of reasons. 1st of all it's a federal judge, just a very senior judge.